If you receive a check from your employer, the I.R.S., any number of sources and because of an error you get a check for $1,000,000 instead of the amount you knew it should be, $1,000. Go ahead, cash it, see who is held criminally liable.
It’s the same for people who ran up ridiculous tabs on their food stamp cards, they are liable, not W-M, not tax payers not anybody else. It was a criminal act.
I’,m a W-M stock holder too, I hate to see it happen but we both know that W-M (you and me) will eat these charges.
http://theadvocate.com/home/7320109-125/state-taxpayers-dont-have-to
State: Taxpayers don’t have to pay for food stamps glitch
By MICHELLE MILLHOLLON
For Wal-Mart shoppers in Mansfield and Springhill, the chain’s “always low prices” got ridiculously low following a glitch in the food stamp system.
The good news: Taxpayers aren’t on the hook for what was likely an expensive mistake for the big box retailer, state officials said Monday.
A failure at Xerox Corp. took down the electronic benefit transfer system Saturday for several hours in 17 states, including Louisiana.
Media in Maine, Maryland, Florida and other states affected by the glitch reported retailers in those state simply turned away EBT users.
Others followed the emergency procedure that allows up to $50 in authorized purchases per patron.
At Wal-Marts in Mansfield and Springhill, cashiers allowed EBT recipients to make purchases even though they could not check their card balances. The cashiers stored the transactions so they could run them later when the system rebounded.
Wal-Mart’s policy apparently turned an October Saturday into Black Friday.
An unknown number of customers emptied the shelves, piled their carts high with food and spent well beyond their EBT debit card limits.
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